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It is announced that President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela are awarded the Nobel Peace Pr

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Conservative Party politician Clive Derby-Lewis and Polish immigrant Janusz Walus are sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to de

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Political assassination: Ben Badi, Nowinile Badi and granddaughter Vuyokazi Badi (11), are killed at home.

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Political assassination: Elby Ngece, ANC member, is killed at home in Alice, Eastern Cape.

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The Separate Amenities Act racially segregating public facilities is repealed by 105 votes to 38 with one abstention in the Hou

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Seven African National Congress members receive a tumultuous welcome in Soweto following their release after twenty-six years’

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President P.W. Botha meets Ivory Coast’s President Felix Houphouet-Boigny.

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Five miners die in a hoisting accident on Rustenburg Platinum Mines, bringing to fifteen the death toll in mining accidents dur

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Thomas Sankara, head of the Military Council of the Revolution in Burkina Faso, is assassinated in a military coup and replaced

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Two US surveillance planes arrive over Egyptian airspace to demonstrate increased US support for Egyptian and Sudanese security

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The results of the Transkei general elections are announced. The ruling Transkei National Independence Party (TNIP) wins sixty-

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The United Nations Secretary-General accepts the credentials of the South African delegation led by Foreign Minister Pik Botha

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A Second General Law Amendment Bill is introduced by the minister of justice, J.T. Kruger, involving the repeal of the ‘Masters

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Somalia’s President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke is assassinated.

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The Netherlands Permanent Representative at the United Nations announces that his government has banned the export and transit

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Nelson Mandela’s treason trial starts in the Old Synagogue in Pretoria. He was captured near Howick on 5 August 1962.

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Amnesty International, human rights organisation that consistently condemned apartheid in SA, is founded in London.

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President Habib Ali Bourguiba, of Tunisia, breaks relations with the United Arab Republic (UAR).

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Foreign Minister Eric Louw tells the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference that South Africa is not prepared to submit to an

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The conference of African leaders, meeting in Bloemfontein, firmly rejects the Tomlinson Report on the development of the Afric

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A Dakota air-liner, Paardeberg, crashes into Ingeli Mountain near Kokstad, Transkei, causing the first serious air-line crash i

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The Labour and Dominion Parties withdraw from General Jan Smuts’s coalition.

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Sydney Charles Buxton (80), British statesman and second governor-general of the Union of SA, dies in Sussex, England.

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Dr D.F. Malan is the first cabinet minister in SA to travel by air. He leaves Cape Town in a Moth aeroplane at 6.30 a.m. and ar

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Rexon (Scotch) Mathebula, SA artist who held several menial jobs and sold his first artworks (images on pieces of glass made wi

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Gottfried Andreas Watermeyer, SA poet, is born on a farm near Middelburg, CP.

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Xenophon Constantine Balaskas, SA cricket player in nine tests, is born in Kimberley.

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The Natal Teachers’ Union is established.

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The Union government appoints Commissioner of the Transvaal Police, Colonel (later Sir) Theodore Truter, as Chief Commissioner

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Anglo-Boer War 2: A unit of seventy-five Cape Police retires from Taung, urging the local Blacks to remain peaceful. The magist

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It is announced that President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela are awarded the Nobel Peace Pr

Conservative Party politician Clive Derby-Lewis and Polish immigrant Janusz Walus are sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to de

Political assassination: Ben Badi, Nowinile Badi and granddaughter Vuyokazi Badi (11), are killed at home.

Political assassination: Elby Ngece, ANC member, is killed at home in Alice, Eastern Cape.

The Separate Amenities Act racially segregating public facilities is repealed by 105 votes to 38 with one abstention in the Hou

Seven African National Congress members receive a tumultuous welcome in Soweto following their release after twenty-six years’

President P.W. Botha meets Ivory Coast’s President Felix Houphouet-Boigny.

Five miners die in a hoisting accident on Rustenburg Platinum Mines, bringing to fifteen the death toll in mining accidents dur

Thomas Sankara, head of the Military Council of the Revolution in Burkina Faso, is assassinated in a military coup and replaced

Two US surveillance planes arrive over Egyptian airspace to demonstrate increased US support for Egyptian and Sudanese security

The results of the Transkei general elections are announced. The ruling Transkei National Independence Party (TNIP) wins sixty-

The United Nations Secretary-General accepts the credentials of the South African delegation led by Foreign Minister Pik Botha

A Second General Law Amendment Bill is introduced by the minister of justice, J.T. Kruger, involving the repeal of the ‘Masters

Somalia’s President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke is assassinated.

The Netherlands Permanent Representative at the United Nations announces that his government has banned the export and transit

Nelson Mandela’s treason trial starts in the Old Synagogue in Pretoria. He was captured near Howick on 5 August 1962.

Amnesty International, human rights organisation that consistently condemned apartheid in SA, is founded in London.

President Habib Ali Bourguiba, of Tunisia, breaks relations with the United Arab Republic (UAR).

Foreign Minister Eric Louw tells the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference that South Africa is not prepared to submit to an

The conference of African leaders, meeting in Bloemfontein, firmly rejects the Tomlinson Report on the development of the Afric

A Dakota air-liner, Paardeberg, crashes into Ingeli Mountain near Kokstad, Transkei, causing the first serious air-line crash i

The Labour and Dominion Parties withdraw from General Jan Smuts’s coalition.

Sydney Charles Buxton (80), British statesman and second governor-general of the Union of SA, dies in Sussex, England.

Dr D.F. Malan is the first cabinet minister in SA to travel by air. He leaves Cape Town in a Moth aeroplane at 6.30 a.m. and ar

Rexon (Scotch) Mathebula, SA artist who held several menial jobs and sold his first artworks (images on pieces of glass made wi

Gottfried Andreas Watermeyer, SA poet, is born on a farm near Middelburg, CP.

Xenophon Constantine Balaskas, SA cricket player in nine tests, is born in Kimberley.

The Natal Teachers’ Union is established.

The Union government appoints Commissioner of the Transvaal Police, Colonel (later Sir) Theodore Truter, as Chief Commissioner

Anglo-Boer War 2: A unit of seventy-five Cape Police retires from Taung, urging the local Blacks to remain peaceful. The magist